BUS 374 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Organizational Culture, Social Capital, Organizational Learning

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 374
• Professor: Tim Hargrave

Document Summary

Chapter 9 - organization culture and ethical values. Bring one new cheat sheet and the old one for the final exam. Explore the ideas about organizational culture and ethical values. The nature of organizational culture, its origins and purpose, and how to identify and interpret culture through ceremonies, stories, and symbols. How culture reinforces the strategy and structural design the organization needs to be effective in its environment and discuss the important role of culture in organizational learning and high performance. How managers implement the structures and systems that influence ethical and socially responsible behaviour. How leaders shape culture and ethical values in a direction suitable got strategy and performance outcomes. Explore the complex cultural and ethical issues managers face in an international environment: organization culture. The set of key values, beliefs, understandings, and norms that are taught to new members as the correct ways to perceive, think and feel in relation to those problems.